—Voices from the Sensible Center—

Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans—
Interpreting North America for the Middle East

The Gulf Crisis

5 Three Possible Scenarios

7 A New World Order in the Middle East

16 Syria Changes Tactics

32 U.S. Access to Middle East Oil

33 Palestinians and the Gulf Crisis

37 Personality: Kuwaiti Ambassador Sheikh Saud Nasir Al Sabah

49 What President Bush Can Do

62 How Wrong AIPAC Has Been

Israel and the Intifada

6 Oil and Water Symmetry

9 Yitzhak Rabin's "Iron Fist"

Special Reports

10 Democracy Stifled in Pakistan

15 Seeing the Light

50 New U.S. Hostages in the Gulf

51 The Media's War Against Peace

52 Washington, DC's Arab Network

U.S. Congress

19 Reversing the Pecking Order

21 A View From the Hill

22 1989 House Voting Records

31 Behind the Congressional Voting Record

Departments

4 Letters to the Editor

12 Words to Remember

14 From the Hebrew Press

17 Media

34 Four Views

36 Maghreb Mirror

39 Page 65

41 Facts for Your Files

47 Issues in the News

53 Cartoons from the Arab Press

54 Other Voices

63 Canada Calling

64 Other People's Mail

67 Religion

68 Arab-American Activism

68 Islam in America

69 Human Rights

70 Jews and Israel

71 Trade and Finance

73 Book Review

74 AET Book Club Catalog

84 Waging Peace

85 Publishers' Page

86 Figure It Out